Angela Carter New Critical Readings [Paperback]

Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.Angela Carter: New Critical Readingsboth evaluates Carter's legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a poet and a naturalist'. Including coverage of Carter's earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting the canon, surrealism, and Carter's poetics.

Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK.

Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and
Cultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK.

Notes
on Contributors \ 1. Introduction \Part I: Genre and Canon\ 2. Contemporary Women's Writing: Carter's
Literary LegacySonya Andermahr\ 3. Isn't it every girl's dream to be married
in white?': Angela Carter's Bridal GothicSarah Gamble\ 4. Between the Paws of
the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and AudienceLorna Jowett\ 5. Angela
Carter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets,
Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean WesternsSusanne Gruss\ 6. The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter's
Food Fetishes'Maria Jos? Pires\ 7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's
Alice in Prague or The Curious Room'Michelle Ryan-Sautour\ 8. Cradling an
axe like a baby': Angela Carter's LuluMine ?zyurt Kili?\Part II:
Philosophies\ 9. Sex, Violence, and Ethics - Reassessing Carter's Moral'
RelativismLawrence Phillips\10.Angela Carter, NaturalistAnja M?ller-Wood\ 11.The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow DanceAnna
Watz\ 12. The Art of Speculation: Allegory and ParodlSÊ